Я соскучилась по творческим встречам с Эльчином Сафарли. Удивительно, но на презентациях его книг, никто никогда не спрашивает у него о книгах, да и сам он о них не говорит. Все спрашивают о том, как жить, как любить, как верить.
В одном из интервью он как-то сказал: "...– Мне ближе всего славянский менталитет. Я не выбирал – это зов крови. Долго думал, что в принципе я восточный парень. Но с годами стал понимать: нет, во мне русская душа..."
Я соскучилась по творческим встречам с Эльчином Сафарли. Удивительно, но на презентациях его книг, никто никогда не спрашивает у него о книгах, да и сам он о них не говорит. Все спрашивают о том, как жить, как любить, как верить.
В одном из интервью он как-то сказал: "...– Мне ближе всего славянский менталитет. Я не выбирал – это зов крови. Долго думал, что в принципе я восточный парень. Но с годами стал понимать: нет, во мне русская душа..."
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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